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Allison is Currently Reading

Allison is currently reading

The Dream Hotel

by Laila Lalami (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 11, 2026 06:57AM

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The Last One (Vallendor, #1)

by Rachel Howzell Hall (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 06, 2026 08:42AM

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Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Allison’s Quotes

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
― George Carlin

tags: books, bookstores, self-help

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

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“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-bible

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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